Question

1. Provide at least two examples of how nursing informatics has affected the nursing profession.

2. Provide at least two examples of how nursing informatics affects your nursing care.

3. Explain how these examples affect the care provided to patients.

Answer 1

Answer: The nursing informatics has affected the nursing profession in various ways such as:

• It reduces the work load on the nurses by indulging new technology.
• It has made easier for the nurse to assess patients.

The nursing informatics affects nursing care as:

• It provides critical thinking skills by including various methods of cars.
• Use of technology has provided them to diagnose, analyse and save the medical information of the patient at one place for easily access.

These examples have affected the care provided to the patients as the informatics used in nursing provides the nurses to provide quality of care. The implementation of EHR ( electronic health record) system in the healthcare organization has reduced the workload and burnout in the professionals. Hence this lead to increased efficacy in the delivery of the healthcare to the patients. All the information can be easily available and hence it can save time.